Tosena
Genus of true bugs
title: "Tosena" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["hemiptera-of-asia", "taxa-named-by-jean-guillaume-audinet-serville", "taxa-named-by-charles-jean-baptiste-amyot", "taxa-described-in-1843", "tosenini", "cicadidae-genera", "cicadas-of-indochina"] description: "Genus of true bugs" topic_path: "geography/china" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tosena" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Genus of true bugs ::
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Tosena (from ) is a genus of cicadas from South-East Asia. Species formerly included in Tosena are Distantalna splendida, Formotosena montivaga, Formotosena seebohmi, Trengganua sibylla and two species now placed in Vittagaeana, with Tosena the only genus of tribe Tosenini.
List of species
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility lists:
- Tosena albata Distant, 1878
- Tosena depicta Distant, 1888
- Tosena fasciata (Fabricius, 1787) - type species
- Tosena melanoptera (White, 1846)
- Tosena mearesiana (Westwood, 1842)
Note: Two species, Tosena dives and T. paviei, in this "taxonomically unstable group of Asian cicada tribes", were moved by Hill et al. in 2021 to the new genus Vittagaeana: now placed in the Gaeanini.
References
References
- Amyot CJB, Audinet-Serville, JG (1843) Homoptères. Homoptera Latr. [In] ''Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Hémiptères. Deuxième partie'': 455-483. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris, 676 pages.
- "Tosena Amyot & Serville, 1843".
- Distant, W. L. 1889-1892. A monograph of Oriental Cicadidae. West, Newman & Co., London
- "Tosenini - Cicadas of India".
- Hill KBR, Marshall DC, Marathe K, Moulds MS, Lee YJ, Pham HT, Mohagan AB, Sarkar V, Price BW, Duffels JP, Schouten MA, de Boer AJ, Kunte K, Simon C (2021) The molecular systematics and diversification of a taxonomically unstable group of Asian cicada tribes related to Cicadini Latreille, 1802 (Hemiptera : Cicadidae). ''Invertebrate Systematics'', 35, 570–601. [https://doi.org/10.1071/is20079 DOI]
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